An empirical study on the semantics-pragmatics of two Romance confirmational tags

This paper provides a fine-grained characterization of two confirmational tags in Catalan, oi? and eh?, starting with the novel claim that, despite appearances, they do not have the same distribution or meaning. While oi? is a rather unconstrained confirmational, eh? is proved to be sensitive to wh...

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Published in:Isogloss
Main Authors: Elena Castroviejo, Laia Mayol
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona 2024-12-01
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Online Access:https://revistes.uab.cat/isogloss/article/view/406